We test for different theories purporting to explain cross-country differences in income redistribution through … standardized experimental choices. US Americans and Italians demand less redistribution than Norwegians and Germans, regardless of … overconfidence by US Americans and Italians further reduces their demand for redistribution under uncertainty. The "Prospect of …

This paper explores the perceptions of inequality and their associations with social mobility exploiting the ISSP and … more tolerant to income inequality than a less mobile and segmented one? The intuitive answer seems to be an obvious “yes …

What accounts for the growth of US top income inequality? This paper proposes a hierarchical redistribution hypothesis …; and (4) the "fattening" of the entire income distribution tail. This result supports the hierarchical redistribution … hypothesis. It is also consistent with the available empirical evidence on within-firm income redistribution. …